black market
noun [C usually singular]Definition
› illegal trading of goods that are not allowed to be bought and sold, or that there are not enough of for everyone who wants them: During the war, they bought food on the black market. They blamed high taxes for the growth of a black market in cigarettes.Buying and selling in generalTrafficking and racketeering black marketeer noun [C] People who sell thingsTraders, merchants and entrepreneursMiscellaneous criminals
(Definition of black market noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- barter noun
- barter verb
- channel noun (MAKING AVAILABLE)
- cold-calling noun
- come-on noun
- come/go under the hammer idiom
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- keep verb (CONTINUE TO HAVE)
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- pawn verb
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